After she caused quite the commotion on Wednesday night, by showing up nearly 15 minutes late to American Idol’s first live show, Friday might not be the only pink Nicki will be seeing!

While Ryan Seacrest kept his cool during the show as he joked about Nicki’s lateness — all while judges Keith Urban and Randy Jackson awkwardly responded and Mariah Carey looked completely unamused — what happened backstage was a whole other story!

During Judges' round tryouts for X Factor U.S. on Sunday in El Lay, things were tense in the room, especially after Simon Cowell gave the audience the OK to "express their opinions about the auditioners":

"The idea is we're trying to find a superstar…And you're our fifth judge. Basically you're here to tell us who you like. You can be as badly behaved as you want, actually. The whole reason for doing this is I trust you guys for being able to judge this process. There's $5 million at stake."

There was plenty of booing, but perhaps even more harsh were L.A. Reid's comments for auditioners. Here's what he had to say to one woman who was not well-liked by the audience:

"When was the last time you performed? Eighteen years ago? Whatever made you stop then, you should've stuck with that decision."

And here was Simon Cowell's less intense response to the same woman:

"It's very brave, and I don't mean this disrespectfully, but you're someone who should be singing at home."

As auditions continued, the audience was asked to refrain from booing. Perhaps they felt Reid's comments were brutal enough…

What do U think about L.A. Reid's comments Vs. Simon? Is Reid more mean than Cowell?

“I’m in love with James Franco. The world is in love with James Franco right now. He’s wonderful, and thank God for him. He’s so original, he’s doing his own thing and he doesn’t care about what anyone thinks about him, I really look up to him.”

Sounds like the Oscars was a tense night that didn't go as well as anybody hoped, but we're not necessarily convinced that these two hate each other.

While shooting Rabbit Hole together, Eckhart has admitted that it got pretty tense between himself and co-star Kidman, but he's made it clear that it's nothing out of the norm.

Here's what he had to say about it:

"She was irritated with me and I was irritated with her but that's the way movie-making is. For one day, are we not allowed? For half a day even?…It's so surprising to me when people are surprised that movie making is sometimes tense and uncomfortable because inherently it's going to be.

You're around tens of people or hundreds of people working on things that are imaginary and that come from the soul. You could be dealing with subject matter like prostitution, death, drugs, blah, blah, blah. How could you expect that not to be uncomfortable?"

Clearly, he's not TOO uncomfortable with Kidman. Here's what he had to say about reports that she's trying to play matchmaker for the actor:

"The proof's in the pudding. Let's see her put her money where her mouth is. I haven't seen it yet."

Sounds like things should be fine between these two, and we're glad to hear it!